'
'Have I?'
'Yes, sir. After my folly about that ring you should have known
better than to send it to me. You must take it back again.'
'You shall do exactly what you said you would. You shall give it
to me wife,--when I have one.'
'That did very well for me to say it in a note. I did not want to
send my anger to you over a distance of two or three hundred miles
by the postman. But now that we are together you must take it
back.'
'I will do no such thing,' said he sturdily.
'You speak as though this were a matter in which you can have your
own way.'
'I mean to have my own about that.'
'Any lady then must be forced to take any present that a gentleman
may send her! Allow me to assure you that the usages of society
do not run in that direction. Here is the ring. I knew that you
would come over to see,--well, to see someone here, and I have kept
it ready in my pocket.'
'I came over to see you.'
'Lord Silverbridge! But we know that in certain employments all
things are fair.' He looked at her not knowing what were the
employments to which she alluded.
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